[MPlayer-users] Re: B frames supported? ("slice end not reached but screenspace end")

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Monday 23 December 2002 13:36, Markus Liebl wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 00:38:11 +0100
>
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> > > > You can play these files with -lavdopts bug=16 ...
> > >
> > > Works, thanks.
> >
> > btw, please upload the sample anyway, as this should be autodetected and
> >
> > shouldnt require bug=16 to be passed
>
> Could you wait until the xvid developer fixed the bug?
hmm, i thought that the slice padding bugs are allready fixed in the latest 
dev version, but i never checked (i wasnt able to get latest dev3-xvid to 
generate a playable video at all last time i tried)

>
> It is a bug of the devel tree and the user should not use it for movies.
yes, but they are too stupid and use it anyway, and then they complain that 
they cant play the movies anymore, IMHO its the fault of the ppl who provide 
binaries of unstable & buggy encoders

> It's a bad idea to fix xvid bugs in ffmpeg. Some xvid developer use ffmpeg
> to test their xvid encoder...
this is not a very good idea, as ffmpeg works around many bugs allready, 
perhaps ffmpeg should print more warnings if it detects inconsistant stuff 
...

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Michael